Carl Borromeo Weitzmann

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Carl Borromäus Weitzmann in the last year of his life

Carl Borromäus Weitzmann (born June 25, 1767 in Munderkingen , † May 30, 1828 in Ehingen an der Donau ) was a German lawyer and Swabian dialect poet .

Life

Weitzmann was born as the son of the regimental physician (and later mayor of Munderkingen) Friedrich Weitzmann from Magdeburg in Munderkingen. After studying law in Vienna , he became secretary for the Upper Austrian landscape in Ehingen . After the annexation by Württemberg (1803) he worked as a lawyer .

Weitzmann was a brother in the Freemason lodge at the true Eintracht in Vienna, where he was close friends with Aloys Blumauer . He was also a member of the Lodge Astraea zu den Drey Ulmen (today Lodge Carl zu den Drei Ulmen ) in Ulm.

Of his works, only those written in the Swabian dialect are considered valuable. In his literary history of Swabia, Hermann Fischer denies the High German contributions any value. Weitzmann's rough Swabian poems were initially forgotten and were only rediscovered when Lorenz Locher's work was published in 1955.

Weitzmann wrote the opera libretto Conradin von Schwaben for Conradin Kreutzer (premiered in Stuttgart in 1812).

Works

  • All poems in pure German and Swabian dialect (published several times)
  • Poetic estate (1853).

literature

  • Friedrich Weitzmann: From the life of the well-known Swabian folk poet Carl Weitzmann . Self-published, Stuttgart 1865 (biography, written by his son Friedrich Weitzmann)
  • Hermann Fischer : Contributions to the literary history of Swabia . Verlag Laupp, Tübingen 1891, pp. 224–226 ( digitized version )
  • Hermann Fischer:  Weitzmann, Karl Borromeo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 635.
  • Lorenz Locher (Ed.): Carl Weitzmann. A selection of his High German poetry. All poems in Swabian dialect. An outline of life with family-biographical picture documents . Self-published, Munderkingen 1955
  • Carl B. Weitzmann: Collected works . Süddeutsche VG, Ulm 1992, ISBN 3-88294-179-0 (reprint of the Ludwigsburg 1829 edition, with additions from the Ulm 1803 and Stuttgart 1853 editions; published by the city of Munderkingen on the occasion of its 1200th anniversary in 1992; with an introduction by Norbert Feinäugle )

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personal data
SURNAME Weitzmann, Carl Borromeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitzmann, Karl Borromeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Munderkingen
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1828
Place of death Ehingen (Danube)